Langmuir Road, Kirkintilloch. A Pub for the family. So many pubs these days have gimmicks. If they’re not trying to outsmart one another with entertainment then they’re vying with each other in snacks and food stakes. So it’s rather nice when you come across a new pub which claims to have no gimmicks, a pub […]

Kirkintilloch. Mr James Crookston. 1893. Kirkintilloch, its charter, granted by William the Lion, dates as far back as the twelfth century, while the Parish Church was erected in 1644. The centre of a rich agricultural, as well as mining district, it is a thriving town and is particularly interesting to the visitors, from the […]

32 Townhead, Kirkintilloch, Glasgow. G66 1NL. Tel: 0141 776 5711. The Antonine. 1970. Kirkintilloch’s first public house since the town voted ‘WET’ after almost 50 years opened in the summer of 1970. One of the Scottish & Newcastle group, the premises are named the Antonine after the Roman Wall which ran from Kirkintilloch to […]

William Buchanan, Cumbernauld Road, Kirkintilloch. In 1888 Kirkintilloch had a population of 8,000 people. A mile to the east of the town is the Martyrs’ Stone, erected in memory of John Wharry and James Smith, who suffered in the cause of the Reformation. Captured in Stephenson Wood near by, they were conveyed to Glasgow, […]

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This Month In History

James Crawford MacFarlane of the Victoria Bar, Govan in 1964, was married at the Mosspark Parish Church, March 28th 1950 to Miss Margaret Prentice Walker, daughter of Mr & Mrs Walker, Corkerhill Road, the reception was held at the Rhul, Sauchiehall Street.